The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Written against Swedenborg's account of the next world, which is not in this index, it reverses the terms: energy is eternal delight, the body is a portion of soul, and the Proverbs of Hell arrive as maxims for living without restraint. Between them the narrator dines with Isaiah and Ezekiel, walks through a printing house where knowledge is passed from generation to generation, and argues an angel out of his position. The verdict that Milton was of the Devil's party without knowing it is delivered here, in passing.
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- responds to ↑ Paradise Lost
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